Or maybe FOSS community raised money to buy the license from him?

Or the FOSS community raised money to create a FOSS clone of the program?

Those would be interesting stories/programs to look at.

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    Yes. The 3D modelling software Blender was closed source. A FOSS community got together and raised the money to buy and open source it. And then it became better than ever.